Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,318 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Eliza Ann Grier
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Eliza Ann Grier (1864-1902)
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Frances Ellen Harper Branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1891-1895)
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Juliana (Wiggins) Stratton (1965- )
Black victims of Springfield Attacks, August 15, 1908
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Springfield Race Riot, 1908

Explore Global African History

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Nafissatou Thiam (1994- )
Juan Marichal
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Juan Antonio Marichal (1937- )
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Kenneth Kaunda (1924- )
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Miriam Makeba (1932-2008)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History
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Race, Family, and Real Estate: Beryl Satter’s Family Properties
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African Americans and Cuba’s First Experiment in Castro-Era Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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